cyprus us burns any e.u. bailout deal that would have cut into ordinary depositors savings forcing the government to look to moscow for life like a gates bankruptcy. barack obama arrives in israel for the first time as you as president but may struggle to close the growing gap between the countries of middle east policies. u.s. military officials admitted that one time or hunger strike has almost doubled and that detainees are being force fed while human rights groups demand more openness from the detention camp. an iraqi terrorist group with links to al qaida claims responsibility for bombings that killed dozens in baghdad for the unsettling the country ten years on from the you was led invasion.

wherever you are in the world you're watching our libel from moscow with me to them with the. scenes of relief and celebration greeted the sign praise parliament's rejection of a tax on bank deposits the one of levy linked to an e.u. bailout deal would have seen millions of account holders lose up to a tenth of this savings and had been condemned by officials and the public alike but the country now finds itself on the brink of bankruptcy and having rejected the easy used terms in may have to turn to russia for cisterns archies you go to be scared of picks up the story. so it was is in a very difficult position right now so this is just rejected the bailout plan by brussels and the troika off key investors to tax private bank accounts in cyprus

and frankly there aren't that many places to turn to right now for assistance in the cypriot finance minister is in moscow he's met with his russian counterpart and he's said that he's satisfied with the negotiations but at the same time added that no official offer has been made so far although the minister is now planning to meet with russia's first deputy prime minister and said that he's not leaving moscow on till an agreement is reached there is speculation that cyprus is going to ask russia for a loan but we do know that the currency already holds in moscow two and a half billion year old this is for another loan which was given to the currency back in two thousand and eleven back then it exceeded ten percent of its g.d.p. and that helped its economy stay afloat so the big question now is is cyprus going for broke is it going to ask russia for a complete bailout package but the big picture is angle or merkel is completely furious with cyprus even talking to moscow about this even though it's widely

acknowledged that up to thirty percent of deposits on the site side of the bank accounts belong to russian businesses. banks are on cyprus remain shut to to prevent panicking investors rushing to withdraw their savings a correspondent has us earlier reports from the capital on the situation facing people of me as far as what goes on in the street at the moment. initial padding really happened over the weekend when that announcement was made from brussels that they will be toxic people were lining up. in front of a.t.m.'s trying to get their money out and yesterday i was talking to some locals who were trying to get some money out of the a.t.m. some had run out of cash and this morning when i actually tried to buy a bottle of water they had given me a handful of change and apologizing that they had run out of five euros a ten year old note because the banks were closed the u.k. government as we know had already sent about one million euros in cash to their troops who were here in cyprus just to keep the cash go away now on the on the

bigger level of economic a level if the banks do remain closed this will pose a problem as the economy does hit a substantially on the banking sector and there's already been doubt on whether the banks will open at all but we also heard from reaction from the e.u. a dutch fineness minister said well the bloc deeply regretted the boat but the bailout offer still sounds provided that the initial requirement is still met all the asli that is law that has not passed the parliament and they're really not happy about that will the impact of what has happened in cyprus certainly sending ripples across a girl first of all to the citizens who are now with quite afraid of their say because of the fact that the seeds of doubt the soul of the credibility has been damaged that the damage has been done even if the boat did not go through so people are saying if it can happen to cyprus that that red line to be crossed dipping into people's savings it could happen to other euro zone countries that might be leading bailouts in the future the controversial plan some may have been rejected by side

but the e.u. has an end to dangerous territory in proposing the idea of severe of nigel fraudster u.k. independence who things brussels has sent a warning signal to the people of you. even in my diaries predictions in this parliament over the years about the way the bosses were behaving never did i think that they would in a completely unprecedented manner resort to stealing money from people's bank accounts and the message that sends to people who've got savings in banks in most countries certainly if i was them is get your money out while you can do not invest anywhere in the euro zone you've got to be mad to do so because it's now run by people who don't respect democracy who don't respect the rule of law who don't respect the basic principles upon which western civilization is supposed to be based by our propping up a euro zone which in the end is going to collapse in disastrous failure or they are

prepared to do anything to do so i think that this decision this german dominated and led decision is the worst decision we've seen so far in this whole eurozone crisis. the man who engineered britain's austerity program is now looking to rebranding solve the case charles love executive prepares to unveil a new budget addicted to scrapping a number of highly controversial tax hikes while pushing ahead with the government's acerbity drive. barack obama has arrived in israel on his first ever visit to the country as u.s. president at home obama has been repeatedly criticized by pro israel lobby is full distancing himself from tel aviv and there's little chance of the between of the two governments any time soon as artie's policy reports. when former american president george bush visited israel for his trip was dubbed skies pope benedict the sixteenth was cloaked white who now it's

a bomb has turned. we've called the visit then shakable alliance it is a sign of the extraordinary relations between israel and the united states. so extraordinary that the prime minister's office invited the public to choose one of these designs as the troops official emblem but relations between the two leaders are strained and many believe the positive p.r. is nothing more than cave a spin there are policy differences. on the palestinian issue on the i think the words the rise of islamist forces in countries go. where do you see from jerusalem neighborhood not what you see from washington. at the distance. from the palestinian street for that matter obama obama came just to beautify the ugly face that bush left the american government works the same whether the president is a bomber or bush the only difference is that one president smiles while the other

does not. this is likely to be the scene for the next three days while a bomb is in town and anger frustration and raised in the streets of palestine also full of posters protesting the president's visit to many of them his face has been blacked out. critics warn that if obama doesn't confront you know who on settlements and sixty seven borders the visit could disintegrate into another diplomatic failure and some say i mean you will of violence in the middle east we don't see ourselves leaving our communities we have returned to places where we have the jewish people have always wished to live there and we live that with encouragement of the support of the israeli government when it comes to read here to abominate on yahoo are at loggerheads a bomber is against an israeli military strike despite relations between the us and iran being himself. quite strained striking iran. in spite of american explicit objections would certainly. hamper israel's

relations with the united states might. even break them all together so for all its hype a bomb is visit for many is less of a compliment and more of an attempt by washington to reaffirm its military alliance in pursuit of its economic interests the interests of the united state its not its in the researches of the middle east and not in its people and to ever think that it is devoted to states have changed that is it will prove differently who thinks comes at a price literally the three day trip cost millions of dollars one hundred points for a visit with so little promise force they are seen however. we've got more on the back story to america's relations with israel and palestine on our dot com where you'll also find reaction to president obama's visit.

u.s. officials have admitted that the number of guantanamo bay detainees on a hunger strike has almost doubled since last week they've also said that at least eight inmates are being force fed while dismissing lawyers claims of prisoner abuse meanwhile the you when a human rights of body has then to argy a cautious statement on the hunger strike archies marina has more on that. r.t. received a long statement from the office of the un's high commissioner for human rights navi pillay now directly related to the guantanamo hunger strike that statement said that quote while aware of some of the allegations of mistreatment of inmates said to have provoked the hunger strike which includes undue interference with inmates personal effects we are still trying to confirm the details unquote of the statement went on to say that the human rights commissioner. has repeatedly regretted that the u.s. government has not closed get mo and has she's also expressed concern over the

obstacles the national defense authorization act has created for losing the island prison and for trying prisoners that are there even the united nations has not been able to have enough access at guantanamo to see what is taking place with this hunger strike that prisoners at guantanamo bay one on hunger strike on february sixth in protest of the alleged confiscation of their personal items and religious handling of their qur'an at that time the u.s. military was saying that only a handful of prisoners were on hunger strike that we do know that medical experts have told us and so have attorneys that once this hunger strike enters its forty fifth the day hunger strike participants risk losing their eyesight and losing their hearing there's been reports according to attorneys of hunger strike participants losing up to thirty pounds if not more coughing up blood losing consciousness being hospitalized so the attorneys for these detainees are sounding

the alarm as they've even the center for constitutional rights even sent a letter to u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel say help us end this hunger strike but the u.s. military is maintaining it's not a big deal laura pitiful human rights watch of things the obama administration has a discredited itself as a global human rights guardian. they are going to have to respond at some point and they need to either you know try and prosecute the detainees who do actually have credible evidence again or release them at this point only sixty gagne's actually face any formal charges half of the people there the administration has said they have no interest in prosecuting. they need q. you know act on this they cannot continue could contain people indefinitely without trial for years bombing administration that u.s. government is clearly in violation of international law and its obligations under

international law and journalists don't have access even the un special rapporteur tour does not have access we don't have access it greatly limits our ability to speak with them and to understand what's happening especially regarding their detention condition and it only undermines the united states his credibility when they're calling for him here and he wants norms in other countries. when we come back why the british ah clinging to their wallets as a ball to find out all the chances going to raise much needed cash stay with us. well. that's technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so please you think you understand it and then you glimpse

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welcome back you're watching our t.v. now the architect of bridges age of austerity is set to unveil a new budget amid a huge pressure to revive the economy after the public all dredges fall to buy the last budget george also expected to do away with the more controversial tax hikes such as be a levy and feel duty hike let's not get some a perspective on know what the plans are might entail would fall money shy hane at a time of types of review magazine is that i hear you know you mentioned that bridge is a teetering on the brink of a triple dip recession which way do you think this will go. yes i mean that's right i think britain is teetering on the brink of an historic triple dip recession and i think that's proof that the chancellor's policies thus far have not worked unfortunately i think that this budget is going to be a budget of continuity not change especially after the mass of negative headlines

that emerged after last year's so-called only shambles of a budget so i suspect. we will see some encouraging measures such as a further increase to the personal income tax allowance which we should hopefully take up to ten thousand pounds and i think that it's. a useful measure it will put money back into into the pockets of the poorest people in this country and and give them more spending money but unfortunately i think there will be. there may well be a further reduction in the corporate income tax rate so i think this is giving money away to the biggest corporations when there is not money to give away to them and i think really now one needs to look at cutting the rate of the eighty back to seventeen point five percent to stimulate spending so let me ask you this i mean for country balked at a with the debt what is the realistic austerity measures that osborne can take at

this time. and everything else they realistically it doesn't seem to be working for the public so what else what do a list of measures can he take to get rid of the debt. yeah i mean i think he's gone about it entirely the wrong way i think clearly or approach is proof that you can't take out your way out of a hole by digging downwards i think it's failed and now you need to really be spending money injecting it into the economy investing in. housing projects and infrastructure roads schools and these are urgent tasks now i think we need to create jobs in the economy we need to create houses and we need to stimulate investment or free in the parts of bridges budgets have consistently tailored to the interests of big business and banks especially do you see that changing in the near future. i suspect that we'll hear quite a lot about tax avoidance in this budget it's been

a huge news agenda lately and the chancellor can't afford to ignore that so we are going to hear some talk of the general rule but i feel like it may well be lip service because this general rule is not going to catch the headline grabbing schemes that we've all heard about with google amazon and starbucks so i think that the chances really going to need to go a lot further if you want to address the problem of corporate tax avoidance by the biggest multinationals. shahid editor of international takes a review live from london thank you for your insight and time. right and al qaeda linked a group named to the islamic state of iraq as says it was behind a series of attacks in baghdad on choose day that killed sixty five people in mostly shiite areas of the city it was the deadliest violence to hit iraq this year and came on the tenth anniversary of the u.s.

led invasion of the country and despite the conclusion all of the so-called freedom and democracy mission so ability is no way in sight darkeys really governor of reports from iraq. almost everyone that we've met here in iraq is deeply scarred and traumatized by war in one way or another whether was losses under the saddam era or the massive violence and bloodshed that's been unleashed by the u.s. war and subsequent occupation not to mention the sectarian and ethnic lines that that war has opened blood shed is unfortunately the new norm for most of the parts of iraq here where we're standing right now is actually the semi autonomous region of iraqi kurdistan is probably the only area in iraq that has seen life improved since the war in large part due to profits from the oil that's been found in this region but less than an hour away in the city of kirkuk where we went a completely different picture checkpoint after checkpoint blast wall surrounding the city it was quite dangerous for us to move around without

a military escort and most of the residents complained of potentials of security attacks almost at any moment this is something that's really been reflected across the country and it's quite symbolic of course that on the anniversary of the ten year invasion iraq close that painful chapter much the same way that it began with bombs across baghdad but as for whether the people feel better off or not it really depends on fortunately on their experience their. ethnic affiliations their religion and what they've suffered during the past ten years. the situation in the country so they know we do have a problem that is violent there are lots of explosions everything is ok except the bombing it's on. the way things are today for. groups of fracturing this democracy. we would feel free to go out and return safely. but there's no guarantee that i'll come home so as you heard there the one thing

that does seem to unite iraqis today is fear fear of when the next explosion or attack may come. the u.s. led offensive are champions of the goal of freeing iraqis from saddam hussein's tyrant and protect in the world from the alleged weapons of mass destruction saddam was toppled but no w m d's were ever found art is a good takes a look at the troubled legacy of the war. what for they thinking then and what do they think now those are the questions that many people want to ask those in power who made the decision to invade iraq ten years ago r.t. did just that pose in several uncomfortable questions to those who voted to invade the country a decade ago warning their replies may leave you surprised no i don't regret voting in that way because i think the people of iraq have been freed of course you'll regret any number of people who died but the big question is what were the was the

intent of saddam hussein against his own people we'd already seen that we had a very repressive regime but what's come in place of saddam's baath his dream could hardly be called a better safer life indicative insurgency terror attacks roadside bombs and seemingly endless six terry and violence the effects of the invasion on the iraqi population has been devastating let's look at these numbers over here we're looking at almost five thousand coalition deaths about hundred thirty four thousand of iraq he does but of course those numbers are varying greatly depending on the source and finally you're looking at more than two million displaced people of course not to mention the latest report by the watson institute for international studies at brown university which reckons the war has to date cost the u.s. more than two trillion dollars some american military officials remain undaunted by the numbers and believe what they did ten years ago actually was a good thing i think it was very necessary for us to do something to help the

middle east which have a degree of freedom but it hadn't had before now a lot of people are going to argue that the iraq invasion did not provide the types of freedom that we had originally envisioned but what what the they're dealing with always they a regime that didn't allow any freedoms and now depending on where you are in iraq there is at least a sim. once of some freedom unfortunately no map of those places has been provided the latest gallup poll conducted on the eve of the tenth anniversary showed fifty three percent of americans consider the invasion of iraq a mistake the view is shared by at least one man who was among those who ten years ago believed a military operation against saddam hussein was necessary artie's bureau london mets with lord prescott who in two thousand and three was tony blair's defeat the prime minister it always used to be denied that it was regime change talking about

not only was a review but it's now what motivates even russia i think to be god to iran you see these people not talking about intervening but they don't want boots on the ground with like they just want. to kill billions in their lives. so i want the lesson to be learned and we shouldn't repeat it again these countries must develop in their own ways as for those iraqis who fought in the war well for them the war is anything but over as they now have to rebuild a country led to the brink of collapse by foreign invaders in the name of ultimate good while those who instigated the carnage seem to show no regrets whatsoever. syria's government and rebels are accusing each other of launching a commie cole attack in near the northern city of aleppo that killed twenty five people and wounded. that fact occurred in an area called which is in the north to find a pool in an area that was under the control of the government it contained one of

the military station it's called the police center the police training center and this police training center has been under that from the opposition for the last three weeks or more and they were very to control it hard because of the difficulty of the hard fighting from the government they could not control it and now after that attack the government claims that opposition who fired and messalina. pain in the morning with chemical disguises and this chemical guys is led into the killing of several people on the one of the several people including some of the doctors were trying to. to heal these people and in the close by hospitals the government to claim that the opposition was was responsible for it and very and the opposition said at the same time that the government is responsible for the exchange of claims between two. because they should between the

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for the little tree will lie down to the. radio guy for a minute. i want. to give you never seen anything like this i'm crawling. around on folks i'm having martin this is breaking the set by now you've probably heard about the steubenville rape case where two teenage boys raped the same girl on two separate occasions now after being convicted on rape charges each of the teenagers were sentenced to at least one year in juvenile jail that's right a one year great contrast this story with the case of the internet hackers simply known as we who was just sentenced to three and a half years in jail for exposing an unsecured database with an eight hundred secure servers the charges against we have are based on the computer fraud and

abuse act the same law that prosecutors used against online activist aaron swartz i could have landed him a life sentence in prison might be missing something here what kind of message are we sending to our youth when computer doctors and internet activists are facing life in prison yet rapists can walk free after year look this is just one example of how warped the justice system is in this country and that's why i'm breaking the set. ten years ago today the u.s. launched a full scale invasion of iraq millions watched the initial shock and awe bombing of baghdad as it was televised uninterrupted around the world so how did this all start to take a quick look back in time.